Vitamin C: Important For Our Health!

My journey into natural healing started a very long time ago.  It actually started because my son, who was 4 at the time had severe ear infections.  We were going to the doctor all the time.  He was so bad that the doctors put him on prophylactic antibiotics, meaning that he took them to prevent an ear infection.  By the time he was 4, his ear infections were immune to most antibiotics.  When a doctor actually tells you that there are no antibiotics left to try, it gets scary.  That is what pushed me to start researching other ways to heal him.  As I studied ways to help cure ear infections without antibiotics, I learned a great deal. One of the first vitamins I learned about was vitamin C.  I can remember thinking, why didn't anybody tell me this before?

What I learned is that vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins for the immune system.  Without it, your body can't heal itself.  I also learned that humans don't synthesize it, like most animals do.  Have you ever wondered why your dog or cat rarely get sick?  They make their own vitamin C.  I wish I did.  Since we don't, that means that we need to eat it every day. This is a water soluble vitamin, so we can't store it in our bodies. On average, we get about 80-100 mg per day, and that is enough to keep us from getting scurvy, but is that really enough?  Personally, I don't think it is enough to keep our immune system running smoothly.  Our immune system is always seeking and destroying invaders, and needs to be working well to keep us from getting sick.  Taking a supplement in the form of a good multivitamin is probably a good idea.

The Egg Confusion

The other day I was in line for the grocery store check out, when I saw the young couple in line ahead of me.  They had a lot of healthy food, some organic food, and mostly fresh veggies.  The cashier commented on what they had, and they replied that they try to eat as healthy as they can.  It was then that I spied the egg container.  It was a brand of cage-free eggs.  It made me realize, that sometimes we just don't know what the labels mean.  The brand was selling the fact that the eggs were "all natural", and vegetarian fed cage free eggs, like they were more healthy than the cheaper eggs. Were they?  And by the way, have you ever seen an egg that was not "all natural".  What does that mean anyway?

In doing some research, I found that there are several problems with eggs that we should be aware of.  I think the most important thing would be what the chickens are eating.  Whatever they eat will go into their eggs, and then we will eat them.  So what exactly is vegetarian fed, is that special?  Not really, as most chickens are fed commercial feed made from soy and corn.  So even the caged chickens eat the same stuff.  Maybe some of the better brands don't use antibiotics or hormones in their feed, which is better, but they are still eating soy and corn.  What is so bad about soy and corn you may ask.  It is GMO soy and corn, which means that either they have huge amounts of Round-up with glyphosate sprayed on them, or they are made with a BT toxin that kills insects by destroying their intestinal lining from the inside out.  That means that the corn and soy have a lot of pesticides and herbicides in them, and you are eating the eggs from the chickens who eat the poisons.